Contact is made in any actual present situation, the only moment in which experience and change are possible.
Laura Perls, Living at the Boundary

Caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation and that is an act of political warfare.
Audre Lorde

To truly love we must learn to mix various ingredients - care, affection, recognition, respect, commitment, and trust, as well as honest and open communication.
bell hooks, All About Love: New Visions

Separateness is a precondition for connection: this is the essential paradox of intimacy and sex.
Esther Perel, Mating in Captivity

The body, not the thinking brain, is where we experience most of our pain, pleasure, and joy, and where we process most of what happens to us. It is also where we do most of our healing, including our emotional and psychological healing. And it is where we experience resilience and a sense of flow.
Resmaa Menakem, My Grandmother's Hands

When we hear someone's truth and it strikes some deep part of our humanity, our own hidden shames, it can be easy to recoil into silence. We struggle to hold the truths of others because we have so rarely had the experience of having our own truths held.
Sonya Renee Taylor, The Body Is Not an Apology